George Sand - Paris, France
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N 48° 50.794 E 002° 20.390
31U E 451565 N 5410609
George Sand was the pen name of Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin.
Waymark Code: WMD37G
Location: Île-de-France, France
Date Posted: 11/12/2011
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member silverquill
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George Sand (1804-1876) was a French novelist and playwright. After nine years of marriage and two children, Sand left her husband and began a series of affairs with several prominent men...including Frederic Chopin. She and Chopin split after he objected to her portrayal of him in her memoir "Un Hiver à Majorque (A Winter in Majorca)".
Wikipedia (visit link) further informs us:
"A liaison with the writer Jules Sandeau heralded her literary debut. They published a few stories in collaboration, signing them "Jules Sand." Her first published novel, Rose et Blanche (1831), was written in collaboration with Sandeau. She subsequently adopted, for her first independent novel, Indiana (1832), the pen name that made her famous – George Sand.

Drawing from her childhood experiences of the countryside, she wrote the rural novels La Mare au Diable (1846), François le Champi (1847–1848), La Petite Fadette (1849), and Les Beaux Messieurs Bois-Doré (1857). A Winter in Majorca described the period that she and Chopin spent on that island in 1838-9. Her other novels include Indiana (1832), Lélia (1833), Mauprat (1837), Le Compagnon du Tour de France (1840), Consuelo (1842–1843), and Le Meunier d'Angibault (1845). Further theatre pieces and autobiographical pieces include Histoire de ma vie (1855), Elle et Lui (1859) (about her affair with Musset), Journal Intime (posthumously published in 1926), and Correspondence. Sand often performed her theatrical works in her small private theatre at the Nohant estate.

In addition, Sand authored literary criticism and political texts. She wrote many essays and published works establishing her socialist position. Because of her early life, she sided with the poor and working class. When the 1848 Revolution began, women had no rights and Sand believed these were necessary for progress. Around this time Sand started her own newspaper which was published in a workers' co-operative.[9] This allowed her to publish more political essays. She wrote "I cannot believe in any republic that starts a revolution by killing its own proletariat."

Her most widely used quote is "There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.'"

This marble sculpture of her is by François-Léon Sicard (1862-1934). It depicts her as a young woman, sitting on a bench with a long dress and long hair. She holds a book in her left hand. It is located in the Jardin du Luxembourg.
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